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The use and abuse of cinema : German legacies from the Weimar era to the present /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rentschler, Eric (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
Series:Film and culture.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Germany > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: History lessons and courses in time
  • Pt. 1. Critical venues. How a social critic became a formative theorist
  • Hunger for experience, spectatorship, and the seventies
  • The passenger and the critical critic
  • The limits of aesthetic resistance
  • Springtime for UFA
  • Pt. 2. Serials and cycles. Mountains and modernity
  • Too lovely to be true
  • The management of shattered identity
  • After the war, before the wall
  • Pt. 3. From Oberhausen to Bitburg. Remembering not to forget
  • Many ways to fight a battle
  • How American is it?
  • The use and abuse of memory
  • A cinema of citation
  • The declaration of independents
  • Pt. 4. Postwall prospects. An archaeology of the Berlin school
  • The surveillance camera's quarry
  • Heritages and histories
  • Life in the shadows
  • Two trips to the Berlinale.